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Finger-Lickin’ Lulz
August 30, 2017
KFC’s creepy virtual-reality publicity stunt is but a hint of things to come in the exciting world of late capitalism’s cyberpunk dystopia.

Weekly Bafflements
August 25, 2017
“The do-nothing option is pretty gruesome.” As a hurricane heads toward Texas, take a minute to read this 2016 piece from the New York Times which outlines the potential devastation of just such a scenario.   Seriously though, everyone knew this was coming. The Texas ...

General McMaster and the Miniskirts
August 24, 2017
It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

Élite Politesse
August 23, 2017
When, in 2012, the copy editor Mary Norris took to The New Yorker’s website to defend its comma usage against the charge that it was “nutty,” a new era in the history of the magazine’s style was inaugurated. Norris was suddenly impossible to escape, extemporizing on ...